So I want to make a bunch of text area things

So I want to make an application/program with a bunch of text area things that the user can paste text into, and press some buttons and have the program process the text and spit out some new text in another text box.

What's a good place to learn how to do that?

Find a book on C# if your interested in windows programming.

Can I not do it with C?

Of course you can do it with C. C# isn't anymore powerful than C is. Check out Charles Petzold's Windows Programming 5th edition, that is an EXCELLENT book for Win32 beginners.

yeah, I recomend petzold as well


it sounds like you will be using CreateWindowEx to make some child windows with the EDIT and BUTTON in your lpClassName parameter

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...tewindowex.asp

something like

Code:

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    hText = CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE, "EDIT", "",
        WS_CHILD,
        -1, -1, 130, 550, hwnd, (HMENU)IDC_TEXT, GetModuleHandle(NULL), NULL);

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assuming "hwnd" is your main window and "IDC_TEXT" is a unique #define

am I right guys

edit- also you can use more styles then just WS_CHILD